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well this turned out to be quite the challenge and was certainly a lesson to me in thinking ahead before jumping in. I decided that if I were going to make a puzzle card I wanted it to look like a real puzzle, cut into jigsaw shaped pieces, and I thought I'd figured a nifty way to do it so, I designed a little cutting file and cut it out on my die cutting machine( see picture 2). The plan was to stamp and colour it, while it was on the cutting mat, then remove the pieces from the mat and put them back together on the card…which might have worked OK had I not, for some reason, decided to emboss the outline stamp before colouring in the central parts of the flowers. First problem, getting the embossing powder off the image with out getting it onto the sticky cutting mat all around the cardstock. A slight problem but I managed to do it. Then a real duh! moment. I have this cardstock, stuck to a plastic mat, and I now have to heat it, to melt the embossing powder. Of course, the plastic mat buckled and warped as the heat was applied, leaving a surface full of ripples and waves and with edges of puzzle pieces sticking up all over the place. Needless to say, colouring the image was not a fun time. I wish I had thought to take a picture of it at that point but I was just about too annoyed with my own stupidity to think of something like that.Anyway, finally I got the pieces coloured, more or less and, any problems encountered with stamping the lady bug with red and grey acrylic paint, were hardly worth noting compared to the heat embossing debacle. I used one of those foam stamps often sold for kids because I've used those before for stamping with paint and they usually work okay and clean up easily. I'm down one cutting mat ( happily it was an old one I was about to retire anyway) but I have (I hope) learned a valuable lesson about thinking more than one step ahead when doing a project like this.
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